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Inform Guide: Gilding Techniques, Care and Maintenance

INFORM guide to identifying, maintaining and repairing gilding.

Inform Guide: Restoration Mortars for Masonry Repairs

This INFORM guide provides information on the use of proprietary restoration mortars for repair of stone masonry.

Inform Guide: Care and Maintenance of Corrugated Iron

This INFORM guide provides some historical background to the use of corrugated iron and outlines the various issues relating to the conservation, repair and maintenance of the material.

Inform Guide: Bird Control in Historic Buildings

This INFORM guide document examines measures that can be taken to minimise the threat birds pose to our built heritage environment and the ways in which they can be controlled.

Inform Guide: Bituminous Sheet Flat Roofs

This INFORM guide first gives a description of the structure of a flat roof. The signs of common problems are then listed before looking at ways to repair roofs and eradicate such problems.

Inform Guide: Cleaning Sandstone - Risks and Consequences

An INFORM guide to the risks and consequences of cleaning sandstone masonry.

Inform Guide: Pantiles - Maintaining a Pantiled Roof

This INFORM guide gives a brief description of pantiles in Scotland, along with common problems, repair and maintenance issues.

Inform Guide: Repairing Scottish Slate Roofs

This INFORM guide gives an introduction to Scottish slate roofs, their components, and their maintenance and repair.

Inform Guide: Hot-Mixed Lime Mortars

This INFORM guide explains what hot-mixed lime mortars are and how they differ from other types of lime mortars.

Inform Guide: Indent Repairs To Sandstone Ashlar Masonry

This INFORM guide provides an introduction to replacing damaged stones in an ashlar built sandstone wall.

EFFESUS Partner Historic Scotland - General Information

"EFFESUS Partner Historic Scotland - General Information" is a document detailing our involvement in EFFESUS, a European research project on energy efficiency in historic districts.

Communities and Funding

Useful links to information on accessing funds for community-led projects.

Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies

This document contains information to support anyone producing, revising or working with Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies (LHEES) in relation to traditional buildings and the historic built environment.

Refurbishment Case Study 30

This Refurbishment Case Study describes the works done to repair a mudwall domestic building.

Technical Paper 10

Results of U-valve measurements of mostly walls, some roofs and one floor.